Railway GK Questions 2026

The scheme guidelines of the Atal Vayo Abhyuday Yojana provide annual financial support of this amount to each Regional Resource and Training Centre, and the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment also assists designated non-governmental organisations and institutions that function as RRTCs, so that outreach, capacity building and service delivery…

Under the Integrated Programme for Senior Citizens (IPSrC) of the Atal Vayo Abhyuday Yojana, run by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, 764 senior citizen homes are being supported at present, along with 13 continuous care homes, 17 mobile medicare units and 3 physiotherapy clinics.

Speaking at the Chintan Shivir, he said the engineering sector was on track to surpass the export numbers of the previous financial year, that the medium and long-term growth outlook remained positive, and that engineering exports were expected to cross US$140 billion in the current financial year.

Commerce Secretary Shri Rajesh Agrawal said in his keynote address that India’s combined exports of goods and services grew by 14 per cent year-on-year to this level during April-September of 2026-27, which he cited as evidence that exports had stayed resilient despite global uncertainty.

The Chintan Shivir for the engineering sector was convened by the Department of Commerce along with EEPC India to chart a strategy for total engineering goods exports of US$250 billion by 2030, together with deeper market access through free trade agreements and the long-term availability of key raw materials.

DARPG organised the 22nd National e-Governance Webinar on 23 October 2026, chaired by its Joint Secretary Shri Avanish Kumar Mishra, and more than 360 officials from Union ministries, state governments, districts, local bodies and temple management bodies took part.

The Panchayat Advancement Index, a framework of the Ministry of Panchayati Raj, measures the performance of gram panchayats across nine Localized Sustainable Development Goal themes, and it does so with 150 indicators and 230 data points.

TRINETRA was built for the Mahakal Rudrasagar Integrated Development Area in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, which includes the Mahakaleshwar Temple, and it was implemented with Ujjain Smart City Limited and the Shri Mahakaleshwar Temple Management Committee.

Ammonium sulphide is an unstable, foul-smelling compound that breaks down to release ammonia and toxic hydrogen sulphide, so it is not used as a fertiliser.

For an astronomical telescope in normal adjustment the magnifying power equals the focal length of the objective divided by that of the eyepiece, so the eyepiece focal length is 50 ÷ 25 = 2 cm.

Barley is sown in the cool, dry season after the monsoon and harvested in spring, which makes it a rabi crop in the northern states.

Vegetables and fruits supply most of the vitamins and minerals in a vegetarian diet, which is why they are called protective foods.

Silver bromide is the light-sensitive compound coated on black and white photographic film and paper, because light breaks it down into tiny grains of silver metal.

Speed tells only how fast a body moves, while velocity also tells the direction of motion, and a quantity with both magnitude and direction is a vector.

A hypertonic solution has a higher solute concentration than the cell sap, so water leaves the cells by osmosis and the protoplast shrinks away from the cell wall.

Magnesium oxide melts at about 2,850 °C, far higher than the other three, because its small Mg2+ and O2− ions carry double charges and hold each other with a very strong ionic lattice.

That is false: in a physical change the molecules stay the same, and only their arrangement, state or shape alters.

Cardiac muscle is a muscular tissue, not a connective tissue; it is the striated, branched, involuntary muscle that makes up the wall of the heart and contracts rhythmically for life.

Genuine currency notes carry security features printed with fluorescent inks that glow only under ultraviolet light, so a UV lamp quickly exposes a fake.

When magnesium burns, magnesium loses electrons and is oxidised, while oxygen gains them and is reduced, so oxidation and reduction happen together.